Biographical Note

Frédéric Bauden, Ph.D. (1996), is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Liège. His research focuses on Mamluk historiography, diplomatics, and codicology. He is the editor of the bookseries
Bibliotheca Maqriziana (Leiden: Brill). He is completing a book on al-Maqrīzī’s collection of opuscules. Malika Dekkiche, Ph.D. (2011), is Assistant Professor of Medieval Middle Eastern and Mediterranean History at the University of Antwerp. Her research focuses on premodern Islamic diplomacy, state formation, religious patronage and more generally on the history of the Mamluk sultanate, Timurid and Turkmen dynasties.

Table of contents

PrefaceAbbreviationsCharts, Figures, and TablesNotes on Contributors 1
Mamluk Diplomatics: the Present State of ResearchFrédéric Bauden 2
Mamluk Diplomacy: the Present State of ResearchMalika Dekkiche

Part 1 Diplomatic Conventions

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Diplomatics, or Another Way to See the WorldMalika Dekkiche 4
Strong Letters at the Mamluk CourtLucian Reinfandt 5
Embassies and Ambassadors in Mamluk CairoYehoshua Frenkel

Part 2 The Mongols and Their Successors

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Careers in Diplomacy among Mamluks and Mongols, 658–741/1260–1341Anne F. Broadbridge 7
The Golden Horde and the Mamluks: the Birth of a Diplomatic Set-Up (660–5/1261–7)Marie Favereau 8
Mamluk-Ilkhanid Diplomatic Contacts: Negotiations or Posturing?Reuven Amitai 9
Baghdad between Cairo and Tabriz: Emissaries to the Mamluks as Expressions of Local Political Ambitions and Ideologies during the Seventh/Thirteenth and Eighth/Fourteenth CenturiesHend Gilli-Elewy 10
Between Iraq and a Hard Place: Sulṭān Aḥmad Jalāyir’s Time as a Refugee in the Mamluk SultanatePatrick Wing

Part 5 Arabia, India, and Africa

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Diplomatic Networks of Rasulid Yemen in Egypt (Seventh/Thirteenth to Early Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries)Éric Vallet 18
“Aggression in the Best of Lands”: Mecca in Egyptian-Indian Diplomacy in the Ninth/Fifteenth CenturyJohn L. Meloy 19
Some Remarks on the Diplomatic Relations between Cairo, Delhi/Dawlatābād, and Aḥmadābād during the Eighth/Fourteenth and Ninth/Fifteenth CenturiesStephan Conermann and Anna Kollatz 20
The Ḥaṭī and the Sultan: Letters and Embassies from Abyssinia to the Mamluk CourtJulien Loiseau 21
“Peace Be upon Those Who Follow the Right Way”: Diplomatic Practices between Mamluk Cairo and the Borno Sultanate at the End of the Eighth/Fourteenth CenturyRémi Dewière

Part 6 The Latin West

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The European Embassies to the Court of the Mamluk Sultans in CairoPierre Moukarzel 23
In the Name of the Minorities: Lisbon’s Muslims as Emissaries from the King of Portugal to the Sultan of EgyptMaria Filomena Lopes de Barros 24
Envoys between Lusignan Cyprus and Mamluk Egypt, 838–78/1435–73: the Accounts of Pero Tafur, George Boustronios and Ibn Taghrī BirdīNicholas Coureas 25
Negotiating the Last Mamluk-Venetian Commercial Decree (922–3/1516–7): Commercial Liability from the Sixth/Twelfth to the Early Tenth/Sixteenth CenturyGladys Frantz-Murphy 26
Three Mamluk Letters Concerning the Florentine Trade in Egypt and Syria: a New InterpretationAlessandro Rizzo